07-28-2010, 01:37 PM
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Save on Gift Bags and Tissue Paper
A few weeks back we threw my son his 1st birthday party. He was a lucky little man and got a lot of new toys and outfits. At the end of the present opening session, there was a big pile of wrapping paper and tissue paper. How tempting to shovel it all into a trash sack and throw it away.
Instead I took two minutes and separated the tissue paper from the wrapping paper. I folded all the birthday sacks that survived, put them with the tissue paper and saved it for another use. I have a box in the storage room with this stuff. I hardly have to buy sacks and tissue paper (except those last minute things when I won't be home first). Saves me about $3-6 dollars every time I need to wrap a present! 
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09-16-2010, 12:38 PM
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My wife does this too! Our daughter makes alot of friends in school and there's a constant need to get a gift here and there. Only trouble is tracking who gave you which wrapping paper and hopefully they don't recognize it.
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11-30-2010, 02:47 PM
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Use newspaper as tissue paper, or use it as wrapping paper. It is unique and it looks kinda cool. Establish with your family, or the person receiving the gift that you are concerned about being green and re-usuable. (When in all reality saving $$$ is the main reason)
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11-30-2010, 02:53 PM
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We never, ever buy tissue paper. There is no need. We just save it anytime one of us gets a gift. There is also always tissue paper as packing when you buy new shoes and we save that. Anytime we buy anything fragile, they always wrap it in a ton of tissue paper and we save that. I'm sure we have more tissue paper than we can ever possibly use.
We also never buy gift bags. We just save all we get and reuse them. Green and cheap.
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12-04-2010, 12:18 PM
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The dollar store wraps the fragile items in such pretty paper. Also, the dollar stores have really large bags if you need to buy them. I just reuse mine over and sometimes I decorate them depending upon the occassion. As for the tissue paper, it wrinkled anyway when you received the gift.
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12-04-2010, 05:56 PM
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I saw a guy on tv the other day, more about being green than spend conscious, but he used potato chip bags to wrap gifts. He turned them inside out, washed them of course, and wrap the gift with the shinny side (foil) out. Then he used old vhs tape as ribbon.
Seemed a bit extreme but you know, I had to admit it looked really good. Brian
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12-04-2010, 06:50 PM
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Garden Ridge is another store that wraps fragile purchases in printed paper of many designs.
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12-05-2010, 06:49 AM
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We used to have a Garden Ridge store. I loved it but they closed down and Joan of the Arch is right about the paper they used.
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